(09-23-2025, 04:33 PM)IAMTAT Wrote: So today's the rapture?


Anyone hear from DB Cowboy today?

Nope, that fat shit done floated away like an untethered Macy's Day Parade balloon.

(09-24-2025, 06:08 PM)DontTreadOnMe Wrote: Who believes in the Rapture?

I read recently that Rapture was invented by the Protestants in the 1800s/
From what I was taught, we will know neither the time nor the place of the End.

I don't know, but people believe in the levels of Hell or Purgatory. They aren't in the Bible or any other holy script so I don't get it myself.

(09-24-2025, 08:35 PM)guyfriday Wrote: I don't know, but people believe in the levels of Hell or Purgatory. They aren't in the Bible or any other holy script so I don't get it myself.

The way I understand Hell is it is the total absence of God.  
Which to me means it is a void.   Just nothingness.
So, the Void is a lot less dramatic to discuss then the Levels of Hell and Purgatory.
JMO 

(09-24-2025, 11:13 PM)DontTreadOnMe Wrote: The way I understand Hell is it is the total absence of God.  
Which to me means it is a void.   Just nothingness.
So, the Void is a lot less dramatic to discuss then the Levels of Hell and Purgatory.
JMO 

Slightly off topic... 

I believe many things are embellished to make the concept easier to hold on to.  
Such as the devil.  Is it a single entity in the same way that God is? Or is it a concept of evil that was born with free will?

(09-24-2025, 11:13 PM)DontTreadOnMe Wrote: The way I understand Hell is it is the total absence of God.  
Which to me means it is a void.   Just nothingness.
So, the Void is a lot less dramatic to discuss then the Levels of Hell and Purgatory.
JMO 

This was basically what I understood too. Basically, burying a person was equivalate to dumping them in Hell, and allowing them to be eaten by animals and exposed allowed the departed to live again in the next life. Cremating the body was equivalent to offering them up as a sacrifice to the gods/God. 

The notion of Hell was an absence of everything, and when people died, they went to a version of Tartarus until they were judged and allowed to move on.

(09-24-2025, 11:13 PM)DontTreadOnMe Wrote: The way I understand Hell is it is the total absence of God.  
Which to me means it is a void.   Just nothingness.
So, the Void is a lot less dramatic to discuss then the Levels of Hell and Purgatory.
JMO 

Bugger.  When I drowned and died I experienced nothing.  Oh well...

But, I have it on good authority that God has postponed the Rapture until the Epstein files are released.

(09-25-2025, 01:10 PM)Oldcarpy2 Wrote: Bugger.  When I drowned and died I experienced nothing.  Oh well...

But, I have it on good authority that God has postponed the Rapture until the Epstein files are released.

You claim there is nothing there, yet YOU are there.

(09-25-2025, 01:20 PM)BeTheGoddess Wrote: You claim there is nothing there, yet YOU are there.

No, I experienced nothing until I came back.  From the dead.

(09-25-2025, 01:25 PM)Oldcarpy2 Wrote: No, I experienced nothing until I came back.  From the dead.

Carpy of Lazarus?

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(09-25-2025, 01:30 PM)Moon68 Wrote: Carpy of Lazarus?

 

Nah....Zombie Carpy...need eat BRAINS!!!